The upcoming baseball simulation from 2K Sports hits consoles on March 8, 2011.
GenreBaseball
Platforms xbox360
DEVELOPER Visual Concepts | PUBLISHER Codemasters | RELEASE DATE
Major League Baseball 2K11 Reviews xbox360
strategyinformer.com review
Baserunning and stealing has been improved a little. To steal, after taking a lead, the player holds down the trigger (for the lead runner) or the shoulder button (for all the runners) to take off. When a pitcher is getting ready to do a pickoff throw, the camera will change early, to let the player know that a pickoff is coming, unlike previous edition’s surprise pickoffs.
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planetxbox360.com review
Then there’s fielding, and it’s solid. Not amazing, as there are still dropped balls and occasional misreads by your AI teammates, but when it comes to hurling the ball towards your intended base, the controls work as needed. Base-running still needs a little work (especially when it comes to stolen bases), but we can’t complain too much. We were pulling off double plays with the San Francisco Giants like champs. The biggest problem lies with the game’s AI. Like we said, our own players make some errors we would’ve easily avoided, and the opposing team has a habit of hitting your pitches too often, even if you throw exactly what and where your pitcher commands. You can tweak the settings, though, if something’s a little too much for its own good. And, of course, there’s the joy of taking on fellow human players, either locally or online through Xbox Live. Online play works just fine, and there’s plenty of MLB Today features to take advantage of. Granted, they haven’t entirely launched yet since, well, we’re not in the season just yet. But from what we’ve seen, the match-ups and features load with no problem. You’ll find plenty to do as you count down to the season starter. In addition to regular match-ups, you can also jump into Franchise and My Player, holdovers from MLB 2K10.
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ign.com review
If you don’t own a PS3, then MLB 2K11 is your only choice in baseball video games. It’s not a bad baseball game, and has certainly made some improvements. Pitching and hitting are both fun, and the My Player mode has been expanded on to make it more accessible and engrossing. The glitches are fewer, but still noticeable, and the game does make some graphical improvements, though the game engine is looking tired. As cliché and tired as it sounds, I look forward to seeing what 2K sports brings next year.
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cheatcc.com review
I decided to start by dissecting the pitching. After all, Roy Halladay is on the cover of the game. Long gone are the days of pressing face buttons to throw your pitch to the desired location. Instead, you gesture the right analog stick, in a similar fashion to performing circle rotations in fighting games, in order to perform your desired pitch. Obviously, a fastball and a change-up are a lot easier to pull off than a slider or circle change; pitches with more movement require more gesturing. The potency of your pitch depends on how well you perform this gesture. Should you do a poor job of doing the slider’s desired movement, you risk hanging it and watching the batter crush it over the wall.
gamer20.com review
MLB 2K11 puts baseball lovers into the shoes of 2011′s franchises. 2010 was widely considered to be the “Year of the Pitcher†after the league saw five no-hitters thrown, two of which were perfect games. So it came as no surprise that 2K Sports selected All Star Roy Halladay (who threw one of those perfect games) as this year’s cover boy.
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